Sarah Palin, via Twitter: God told me to sue the internet

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Wonkette has a post up about @AKGovSarahPalin's crazy late-night twitter bender. She's gonna have to give up that handle, no? Anyway, after you slog through all the crazy ungrammatical Palinglish rambling, the point seems to be that a "higher calling" has directed her to file anti-defamation lawsuits against a number of news websites for having reported the news that she quit her post as governor of Alaska (her "news conference" to that effect is embedded above). From Wonkette:

[A]fter crazily quitting her elected position as governor of Alaska, via an alarming backyard last-minute press conference void of any explanation , at the classic 4 p.m. hour of the Friday-Holiday news dump, Sarah Palin is now twatting on the twitter about how her Anchorage attorneys are going to SUE THE AMERICAN MEDIA, for saying "WTF?"

Honestly, this is what Sarah Palin twatted on Saturday Night, July 4th, Independence Day, in America.

Her link goes to (of course) Scientologist nut and sub-literate weirdo Greta Van Susteren's blog on FoxNews.com, where Greta has helpfully (?) posted seven pages of legal threats from Palin's lawyers, although you can't actually read beyond the first vague page of whining bullshit, because Greta/Fox can't figure out how to operate the Internet.

But, from other websites, we gather Palin's lawyers plan lawsuits against MSNBC, the New York Times, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, individual bloggers in Alaska, and other such anti-Palin forces such as "rain on your wedding day" and static cling.

[W]hat Roland Barthes would have called the pleasure of this text has to
be savored in full to draw out its pure nuttiness. It's hard to know what
to appreciate more: the all-caps prepositions; the sentence fragments that
begin the fifth and sixth paragraphs, the run-on sentences, the frequent
exclamation points!, the quotation from her parents' refrigerator magnet,
the basketball analogy, the proposed logic of quitting so as not to be a
quitter, or the grammatically incorrect final sentence framing the
misattributed punchline, which was actually said not by General Douglas
MacArthur but by General Oliver P. Smith. I especially like the capital O
of "Outside" in "Outside special interests," which reminds us that the world
consists of two parts: Alaska, and Outside.

But what I most enjoy is the authenticity of this text; there can
be no question that Governor You Betcha wrote it herself {wink}.

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